COMM 2P20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Jacques Lacan, Red Riding, Psychosexual Development

• School: Brock University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 2P20
• Professor: Baxter Moore

Document Summary

Argues that the creation of civilization has resulted in the suppression of basic human instincts (storey 91) By having basic needs satisfied by civilization (hunger, shelter, etc) 2. As we become more civilized, we develop more rules and codes which prevent us from behaving in an uncivilized" fashion. But those instincts cannot be totally suppressed, they just come out in other ways. Those basic instincts revealed by freud"s conception of three levels of the mind and his deconstruction of the elements of the psyche. The mind is like an iceberg with the unconscious at the bottom (underwater) - a lot more below than there is above in terms of what may guide our thoughts and actions. Tend to dwell at different levels of consciousness, different levels of the mind. Ego lives mostly at the conscious level, but is informed by the preconscious.